Happy New Year!
New Year’s Day is a time for
resolutions and the hope of starting again – doing whatever or not doing
whatever. I don’t know about you, but my resolutions have never lasted very
long. Stop drinking. Stop smoking my pipe.
Start meditating more regularly and more often. Stop raising my voice
when irritated or angry. Regardless, I don’t have a good track record when it
comes to keeping New Year’s resolutions.
That’s one of the reasons I love
A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Since the world I see is illusionary, it doesn’t
really exist in the mind of God. The “sins” I think I have committed are not
recognizable by the God of my understanding. They are simply errors of
judgment. They are simply wrong or unhelpful decisions I’ve made. They are only
decisions that reinforce – to me – the “reality” of my egoic or illusionary
world I perceive.
So, in effect, I can use every
day of the rest of my life as I normally would use January 1st – a
time for starting again – over and over.
God isn’t just turning a blind eye to my perceived misdeeds. He doesn’t
see them. I can remember watching my son toss, turn and thrash as he slept
through a bad dream. I had no idea what his dream was about. The only way to
help him was to wake him. That’s exactly what God is doing in ACIM. God
literally cannot see my illusionary world. My perceived misdeeds are simply
that – my perception of my created reality. His love for me is the only reality
there is. But I’m too mired in my EGOIC ME to recognize that reality.
His will for me is to begin
understanding the blocks I, as an individual and as a member of the human race,
have created that obscure my awareness of His love. Please notice, my issue is
not to try with all my might and will power to force myself to perceive
differently. I am too entrenched in this egoic world to accomplish that. I can,
however, begin to train my mind to “see” when my ego (which I call Felix) is
driving me and stop and ask for the willingness to see with Spirit’s vision
rather than with my optic nerves. That’s all I need to do – be honest, open,
willing.
I think that’s what I’ll do this
New Year’s Day: Ask for openness and willingness to see things differently. Be
honest about implementing the direction His vision provides. Thank Him for my
sobriety. Start each day anew. On my knees.
I can do that.
When I misstep – I’ll simply
start again.
Although these messages are
mostly for me, thanks for listening. As always – feel free to forward this
message to your friends, family, and those accompanying you on your spiritual
journey.
I wish each of you a superb
2015.
Don
#3 December 2014
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